Prices on mugs dropping, what gives? - General Tiki

E EnchantedTikiGoth Member Calgary, Canada Joined: Dec 31, 2003 Posts: 355	E EnchantedTikiGoth Posted posted on Wed, Feb 3, 2016 4:56 PM This discussion just made me wish I had more to contribute with! Unfortunately, living where the only Tiki bar within 100km is in slacksferret's basement, where I don't have my own house to make one, and the Canadian dollar is plummeting when it was ALREADY costing an arm and a leg to ship stuff here, means I just can't be as big a participant. I mostly get to be the envious observer, mentally cataloguing everything cool for that mythical "some day". And I do visit every day to see what everyone else is posting... I can try to post more here with photos of the few things I manage to do, like personal projects or my trip to the Sip-N-Dip last year that I don't think I've posted any photos of yet. I'm not sure which would be the greater indicator of the Tiki revival going full mainstream novelty kitsch: that Disney has opened Tiki bars or that trendy districts in big cities have opened Tiki bars catering to hipsters. Since Tiki and Disney do overlap for me (it was the Enchanted Tiki Room that got me into it, as evidenced by my user name), this talk about TC reminds me of the life cycle of the online Disneysphere. Forums used to be the big thing, then it was blogs, then podcasts and social media. It wasn't just the product lifecycle of online media platforms that changed though. With forums, you always run into clashing personalities between people who might not have anything in common but affection for the subject, and eventually everyone just runs out of things to talk about. "Haven't we really said everything that needs to be said about the Haunted Mansion?" In searching out new topics, blogs eventually got to such obscure areas that they were bypassed by the largest part of the fandom. My own Disney blog gets sh*t for views because don't nobody care about essays on the historical Davy Crockett or photos of real National Parks lodges (likewise, my Victorian Science Fiction blog gets a fraction of what the average "Steampunk" blog gets, because I don't post photos of girls in brass corsets). Now if only Disney pins were going down in price the way Tiki mugs have...

This discussion just made me wish I had more to contribute with!

Unfortunately, living where the only Tiki bar within 100km is in slacksferret's basement, where I don't have my own house to make one, and the Canadian dollar is plummeting when it was ALREADY costing an arm and a leg to ship stuff here, means I just can't be as big a participant. I mostly get to be the envious observer, mentally cataloguing everything cool for that mythical "some day". And I do visit every day to see what everyone else is posting... I can try to post more here with photos of the few things I manage to do, like personal projects or my trip to the Sip-N-Dip last year that I don't think I've posted any photos of yet.

I'm not sure which would be the greater indicator of the Tiki revival going full mainstream novelty kitsch: that Disney has opened Tiki bars or that trendy districts in big cities have opened Tiki bars catering to hipsters. Since Tiki and Disney do overlap for me (it was the Enchanted Tiki Room that got me into it, as evidenced by my user name), this talk about TC reminds me of the life cycle of the online Disneysphere. Forums used to be the big thing, then it was blogs, then podcasts and social media. It wasn't just the product lifecycle of online media platforms that changed though. With forums, you always run into clashing personalities between people who might not have anything in common but affection for the subject, and eventually everyone just runs out of things to talk about. "Haven't we really said everything that needs to be said about the Haunted Mansion?" In searching out new topics, blogs eventually got to such obscure areas that they were bypassed by the largest part of the fandom. My own Disney blog gets sh*t for views because don't nobody care about essays on the historical Davy Crockett or photos of real National Parks lodges (likewise, my Victorian Science Fiction blog gets a fraction of what the average "Steampunk" blog gets, because I don't post photos of girls in brass corsets). Now if only Disney pins were going down in price the way Tiki mugs have...

Post #758340 by EnchantedTikiGoth on Wed, Feb 3, 2016 4:56 PM